aphesis

English Thesaurus

1. the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire' (noun.process)

hypernym	:	deletion, omission,
definition	:	any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases (noun.process)

derivation	:	aphetic,
definition	:	produced by aphesis (adj.pert)

derivation	:	aphetic,
definition	:	produced by aphesis (adj.pert)